McCain’s speech location funded by earmarks.

Earlier this morning, before making a speech at Florida’s Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) railed against earmarks and “pork barrel projects” on Fox and Friends as “an egregious process.” “It’s symptom of the problems in Washington that people exercise their political clout to get things done that they otherwise wouldn’t,” said McCain. “And it’s the taxpayers money, the taxpayers of every state in America.” Watch it:

[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/McCainEarmarksFNF.320.240.flv]

But as Hotline On Call points out, there is an “irony” in McCain’s speech taking place at Cecil Field, as it is a “pork-proud venue” that has “recieved almost $10M in earmarked funds” between 2001 and 2005. Though McCain “wasn’t responsible for these particular earmarks,” he “did vote for the 2004 and 2005 Defense Appropriation Conference Reports that contained the earmarks.”